Author Topic: Today's Mainstream Music v. Classic Music  (Read 13434 times)

It does take skill to make a great beat and to come up with good lyrics. Saying that anyone can come up with good lyrics and a nice beat is like saying that anyone can just write a hit novel no questions asked. It takes talent. You have to have a good ear for music and you have to have the linguistic skills of of a poet.
Even if you do find a quote of me saying that I think it takes no skill at all to do that and that anybody can, I was exaggerating. You do need skill to make music as it is made today, but it is not nearly as tough as it is to make music with your hands (please don't say that you use your hands on the computer to make a song, you know what I mean). If you took someone as skillful at guitar as Jimi Hendrix and then transferred that skill into making songs with computers, that would be one amazing song.

On another note (pun not intended), what would blow my mind would be to see a band with Jimi Hendrix on guitar, Keith Moon on drums, John Etwistle on bass, Keith Emerson on keyboard, and John Anderson with vocals. For them to make just one song together would be amazing. That song would blow my mind.

Jimi Hendrix sucks cause he can't compose symphonies. Mozart all the way.

See how your logic is flawed?

Jimi Hendrix sucks cause he can't compose symphonies. Mozart all the way.

See how your logic is flawed?
That's like saying Wayne Gretzky sucks because he can't play baseball.

See how your logic is flawed? =D

I'm referring to this:

it is not nearly as tough as it is to make music with your hands

Playing a guitar isn't nearly as tough as it is to compose and entire symphony in your head, so by your logic, classical music is superior based solely on that fact.

If you converted any famous classical composer's skill over to guitar, they would be the greatest guitarist to ever live. It really takes pure genius on top of experience to make a good composer, whereas guitar takes mostly just experience.

OP, don't start this stuff.

People can have their own taste in music, it's their choice. Now don't get me wrong, I absolutely loathe most modern music (Rap, EDM [prolly going to get shat on for this], country, etc), and all I really listen to is 80's heavy metal and hard rock, but come on. If someone likes some music, don't try to force your opinion on them just to change their tastes. Don't comment on it. Just go along your merry way and keep your stuff to yourself. Nobody is going to stop listening to Rihanna or Skrillex just because you tell them to, even if whatever you listen to is better.

It's like how some athiests go around getting into arguments with religious people just because they don't share the same beliefs. Come on, it's almost like you're trying to convert people to athiesm (Key word, convert). Don't try to force your beliefs on others. In most cases, they won't change theirs. Once again, don't get me wrong, I absolutely hate the idea of religion, too, but seriously, this is handicapped.


Playing a guitar isn't nearly as tough as it is to compose and entire symphony in your head, so by your logic, classical music is superior based solely on that fact.

If you converted any famous classical composer's skill over to guitar, they would be the greatest guitarist to ever live. It really takes pure genius on top of experience to make a good composer, whereas guitar takes mostly just experience.

I can tell you that it does take both experience and skill to play the guitar. I've been playing for 3 years with lessons every Thursday, and I still can't memorize the Circle of 5ths, or play Eddie van Halen's Eruption solo.

I can tell you that it does take both experience and skill to play the guitar. I've been playing for 3 years with lessons every Thursday, and I still can't memorize the Circle of 5ths, or play Eddie van Halen's Eruption solo.

Skill comes with experience.

Skill comes with experience.

That's not my point. You said that guitar mostly takes experience, which is wrong. It takes much more than just experience, unless I read your post completely wrong, which is a possibility seeing as I'm tired as forget and on some stuffty painkillers right now.

I don't like anything that is done electronically. I like actual bands that have guitarists and bassists and drummers.

I really don't like anything that is done through a computer, it just sounds weird to me. Even if this wasn't done with some type of electronic, I still didn't like it.

To give you an idea of what I like, it was suggested that I listened to The Yellow Moon Band's Chimneyand some of The Black Keys and I liked both of them. And I don't like anything that has a constant annoying beat like: do do do do do. I don't know if you understand that.
not sure if you saw this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTx3G6h2xyA

he's live djing here

I like rock, but I like the soft music like jazz better.

Also, now that I am thinking about it, FM synthesis modulated by subtractive synthesis might sound surreal.

HA!
You have not TRULY heard classical music until you have heard Handel, Bach, Beethoven, Wagner, and Mozart.

HA!
You have not TRULY heard classical music until you have heard Handel, Bach, Beethoven, Wagner, and Mozart.
I have, and I like it.

HA!
You have not TRULY heard classical music until you have heard Handel, Bach, Beethoven, Wagner, and Mozart.
classical music? THAT IS TRASH COMPARED TO THE LIMERICKS AND LYRE OF 602 BARD BARZESH LOKOSMERT!

HA!
You have not TRULY heard classical music until you have heard Handel, Bach, Beethoven, Wagner, and Mozart.
I don't like this type of music. I prefer music after 1963-1964 up until the early 80s (rock).

I feel like I am the only one here who actually listens to this music. Does anyone else listen to bands like The Who, or Yes, or Pink Floyd?

I feel like I am the only one here who actually listens to this music. Does anyone else listen to bands like The Who, or Yes, or Pink Floyd?
I've got Who's Next, The Wall, The Dark Side of the Moon, and Wish You Were Here on my iPod. I've listened to them all, and they're all great, but keep an open mind